After kids get into school they need more intellectual stimulation, such as logical and strategic game playing to learn when and how to make the right decisions. The use of proper Language skills along with stretching their vocabulary is quite often found in many board games also. Depending on the age, games like Yahtzee, Scrabble, Boggle and Up-Words are good ones and you might even find Jr. Versions available in stores.Are you looking for a Board Game for a teenager? There are many styles to choose from. The old classics are always good, but there are lots of new Games that are being developed that the new generation can relate to.After the 13th birthday things seem to change with kids, because they have more things to think about, and more sources for those things to come from. This is the time in life when you may be able to move their interest into board games that will develop skills they can use, not only in school for learning but in life also. Games like Monopoly, Battleship, Scrabble and Chess can make a difference in the way a person handles there life as an adult.You should find a board game that perks the interest of the child. Board games that are based on movie themes or television series that are popular, and even cartoon and comic books have themes that are used in board games. Some of the characters might just be a favorite of the child you are buying for, and will give the added inspiration to make the child work hard to learn and play the game without any complaining that sometimes comes with things that are unfamiliar. Hanna Montana, Spider-man, Sponge Bob, and Harry Potter, just to mention a few, have games that can and do stimulate the mind. You will also find many of these characters attached to the classic games such as Monopoly and others. The addition of a special character will put the price at a premium though.Unless you know the game quite well and the child that you are buying it for, try to remember that the cost is usually representative of what the value of the game is. Board games are not usually used once and thrown away. They are usually played over and over for many years and then sometimes passed on to other family members or sold in a garage sale with things missing and much use evident from the wear on the pieces.Board games can be found in many places. Regular stores as well as on line, but you can also find good games at garage sales and flea markets. Sometimes the box is a little worse for wear but when all the pieces are there you can really get a good buy.

As a Christian believer, or as any other decent human being, your role as a logical, intelligent individual is to distinguish between when there is a true allegation of racism from when someone is playing the race card. You are not to allow anyone to manipulate you with his or her own agenda. Take for example, a political scenario, where one politician in desperate need of votes starts playing the race card by bringing up divisive racial issues, rather than presenting a concrete platform and work plan to the people. Many people fall prey to such politicians who target the racial sentiments of individuals. Such people end up voting on racial lines rather than focusing on what the politician really has to offer. Inevitably, they get disappointed because the politician fails to deliver, because they really had nothing more than political rhetoric to offer.On the other hand, be careful with individuals who are quick to accuse others of playing the race card. Many of such individuals may have deep-seated racial prejudice and discriminatory beliefs, which they have mastered the act of obscuring. On the surface, they present themselves to be “non-racist,” while practicing racism in the subtlest manner. In the meantime, while they accuse others of being racist or playing the race card, they are no better themselves.Still, it is easier for you as an individual to fall prey to the game of playing the race card when you have unresolved issues within you about racism. If you have fear of other races, especially fear that is motivated by anxiety over perceived loss of economic control or dominance, your fear could dominate your mind and make you a quick target to be easily manipulated by those who play the race card. If you have been wounded in your soul by one or more experiences of racism and the “wound” is still a “open sore”, you could be more receptive to someone playing the race card on one issue or another. This is why you must treat your experiences of racism like any other life’s negative experiences. Daily, you must continue to positively evolve from any experience with racism to become a better human being who simply refuses to be defeated by racism. Someone who refuses to use or manipulate racism in any way for individual benefit. Below are steps that I suggest that you learn to take daily in order to gain your own individual victory over racism, and to avoid playing the race card game.· Regardless of your religion or creed, you need to accept the universal truth that you are not superior or inferior to anyone. Your humanity as an individual is not superior or inferior to that of another human being.· Daily, you must dust yourself of the “debris” of racism to prevent any negative lingering effects of it. You must cleanse your thoughts and emotions of all of the “wreckage” and “remnants” from your unpleasant experiences with racism.· Daily, you need to cleanse your mind of any perceived fear of individuals of other races taking over your life or that of your community or country. Fear and anxiety breeds all manner of destructive negative thinking and emotions that sets you up to become receptive to racial prejudice and discrimination, or playing the race card game.· You need to forgive your racist offenders, so that their ignorant, racist actions against you don’t succeed in making you bitter about life and turning you into a living, wounded soul. God has asked us to forgive those who offend us, so that we too may be forgiven by those we offend and by God Himself. This is a simple Biblical instruction that is by no means simple to practice. Yet, it is necessary for the well being of our soul, that is our mind, thoughts heart, emotions and will. It is necessary for individuals within a family, community, state, country or the world as a whole, to continue to live and co-exist in reasonable harmony.· You must continue to act with integrity before God, regardless of your experiences with racism. So, you do not have the luxury to be a part of racism, or ethnicity-based politics, or play the race card in any shape or manner.· You have to make the conscious effort to remember that God has given all of humanity the mandate not to discriminate against anyone based on race, ethnicity or nationality, or any other reason.